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Originally Posted by Wolferz

This project is not being built to create another recreational lake. It's not even being built to generate hydro electric power. It's a replacement for two other locks and dams to reduce the time it takes for barge traffic to traverse the busiest section of the Oho river from five hours to one.


http://www.lrl.usace.army.mil/Missio...cksandDam.aspx
http://www.lrl.usace.army.mil/Missio...cksandDam.aspx

We have bridges falling apart on our interstate highways and they want to waste money on barge traffic.

Over two hundred million trips are taken daily across deficient bridges in the nation’s 102 largest metropolitan regions. In total, one in nine of the nation’s bridges are rated as structurally deficient, while the average age of the nation’s 607,380 bridges is currently 42 years. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) estimates that to eliminate the nation’s bridge deficient backlog by 2028, we would need to invest $20.5 billion annually, while only $12.8 billion is being spent currently. The challenge for federal, state, and local governments is to increase bridge investments by $8 billion annually to address the identified $76 billion in needs for deficient bridges across the United States.

But ya know, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and any other mud eating freeloaders need it more than us, also we need to prop up the UN damn near by ourselves, and give huge tax rebates, so multi billion making companies do not have to pay a dime in taxes...Well if you are an energy company at least. Right GE??

I drive across the GW bridge in NYC every day, and this thing carries 102 million vehicles a year, it was built in 1927, opened in 1931.

This bridge carries the most traffic in the world, yet you can see the rust spot as you drive on it.

If this bridge failed it would worsen already congested traffic in and out of NYC, which would cost the economy alot.

That is just one bridge in NY/NJ.

Imagine this amplified over the thousands of structurally unsound bridges we have, all over the country.


But, that military base needs to stay open...That senator needs his dam, and those military industrial boys need more planes and tanks. After all, we need to defend ourselves, and Europe.

Who cares if Americans can get to work, just as long as we have the biggest military penis in the world.